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The San Francisco Examiner is a newspaper distributed in and around San Francisco, California, and has been published since 1863.. Once self-dubbed the "Monarch of the Dailies" by then-owner William Randolph Hearst and the flagship of the Hearst chain, [1] the Examiner converted to free distribution early in the 21st century and is owned by Clint Reilly Communications, which bought the ...
List of San Francisco newspapers. AsianWeek. Bay Area Reporter. California Farmer and Journal of Useful Sciences (1855-1880) [1] California Star (1847-1848) [1] California Star & Californian (1848) [1] Chung Sai Yat Po. Daily Evening Bulletin (1855-1895) [2] Daily Evening News [3]
sfgate.com (until 2017) The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California. It was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young. [1] The paper is owned by the Hearst Corporation, which bought it from the de Young family in ...
William Randolph Hearst Sr. (/ hɜːrst /; [1] April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American newspaper publisher and politician who developed the nation's largest newspaper chain and media company, Hearst Communications. His flamboyant methods of yellow journalism in violation of ethics and standards influenced the nation's popular media ...
Newspaper vending machines in downtown San Jose Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst, who took over the now-San Francisco Examiner in 1887 and later made it the flagship of his national chain The first newspaper published by Americans in California was The Californian , printed in Monterey in 1846 announcing the Mexican–American War ...
Starting on November 1, 1994, some 2,600 reporters, editors, drivers, press operators and paper handlers of the San Francisco Chronicle and The San Francisco Examiner walked off the job. The strike turned violent. Bricks were thrown through paper carriers' windshields as they drove from the newspaper distribution center, and one non-union ...
The San Francisco Independent was the largest non-daily newspaper in the United States. [4] It helped to popularize the free newspaper (advertising supported) as a business model at the beginning of the 21st century, [5] and also rescued one of the city's two major daily newspaper, the afternoon / evening San Francisco Examiner (founded 1863, and purchased 1880 by U.S. Senator George Hearst ...
Hearst bought the Atlanta Georgian in 1912, [15] the San Francisco Call and the San Francisco Post in 1913, the Boston Advertiser and the Washington Times (unrelated to the present-day paper) in 1917, and the Chicago Herald in 1918 (resulting in the Herald-Examiner). [16] In 1919, Hearst's book publishing division was renamed Cosmopolitan Book ...